The truth about Jonathan's Visit to Maiduguri revealed

Following the refusal of the Presidency to visit the troubled regions in the North where Boko Haram insurgency has become the order of the the day, it has being revealed that the visit of President Goodluck to Maiduguri was designed to prepare the ground for Mr. Jonathan’s campaign in the troubled Northeast region beginning next week. This is contrary to claims by the Presidency that President Goodluck Jonathan made a surprise visit to Maiduguri, on Thursday to sympathize with troops and displaced people in the region.
The visit which was planned by the President's campaign group to wet the ground for the Party to canvass for the people's vote during its campaign in Borno which is scheduled for January 24. The source which prefer to remain anonymous said that the president was advised to try and make at least one non-political visit to the region to shut up critics,” one of our sources said. “Everyone agreed that taking campaigns to the zone without this kind of initial visit might expose the President to ridicule. That’s essentially why he visited today, and I’m telling you this authoritatively.
With the visit by the President, it is believed that the people of Borno state will warmly receive the  the President and the PDP campaign group when they go for campaign.

List of Presidential candidates and their parties

The Independent National Electoral Commission has published the names of the 14 Presidential candidates running for the February presidential election. The names of the candidates was published on the commission's website on Tuesday. The names and the parties of the candidates are as follow:

Accord Alliance (AA): Tunde Anifowose Kelani as President and Mr Ishaka Paul as his running mate.
ACPN: Alhaji Ganiyu Galadima as President and Ojengbede Farida as the running mate
AD: Rufus Salawu as President and Akuchie clif as the vice president
ADC: Dr Mani Ahmad  as the president and Obianuju Murphy-Uhozue as the vice
APA: Ayeni Adebayo as president and Anthony Ologbosere as the running mate
APC: Muhammadu Buhari as president and Yemi Osinbajo as the running mate
CPC: Chief Sam Eke as President and Hassana Hassan as the vice
The Hope Party: High Chief Ambore Owuru as president and Haruna Shaba as vice
Kowa Party: Comfort Shonaiya as President and Alhaji Seidu Bobboi as the vice
NCP: Chief Martin Onovo as President and Ibrahim Mohammed as the running mate
PDP: Goodluck Jonathan as President and Namadi Sambo as the running mate
PPN: Allagoa Chinedu as President and Arabamhen Mary as the vice
UDP: Godson Okoye as President and Haruna Adamu as the vice
UPP: Dr Ckekwas Okorie as President and Bello Umar as the running mate

Abuja – The independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has published names of 14 presidential candidates for the 2015 general elections.
Details of the names were released on the Commission’s website on Tuesday, showing that one presidential candidate and four vice presidential candidates are females.
The candidates are Sen. Tunde Anifowose-Kelani as the presidential candidate of Accord Alliance (AA) and Mr Ishaka Paul as his running mate, Rufus Salawu as Presidential Candidate of AD and Akuchie Clif as his vice president.
Also published on the commission website were Alhaji Ganiyu Galadima and Ojengbede Farida as the presidential and vice president of ACPN, as well as Dr Mani Ahmad and Obianuju Murphy-Uzohue as president and vice president for ADC.
Others are Ayeni Adebayo as president and Anthony ologbosere, female for APA, Muhammadu Buhari and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as president and vice president for APC, while CPC has Chief Sam Eke as its presidential candidate and Hassana Hassan as vice president.
The Hope Party has High Chief Ambrose Owuru and Alhaji Haruna Shaba as president and vice president, while KOWA party has
Comfort Sonaiya and Alhaji Seidu Bobboi as president and vice president.
NCP has Chief Martin Onovo as president and Ibrahim Mohammed as vice president, while PDP presidential candidate is Dr Goodluck Jonathan, and Namadi Sambo as his running mate.
The PPN has Allagoa Chinedu as presidential candidate with Arabamhen Mary (female) as vice president, while Godson Okoye is the presidential candidate of UDP and Haruna Adamu as vice president.
For the UPP, the presidential candidate is Dr Chekwas Okorie and Mr Bello Umar as his running mate. (NAN)
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Abuja – The independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has published names of 14 presidential candidates for the 2015 general elections.
Details of the names were released on the Commission’s website on Tuesday, showing that one presidential candidate and four vice presidential candidates are females.
The candidates are Sen. Tunde Anifowose-Kelani as the presidential candidate of Accord Alliance (AA) and Mr Ishaka Paul as his running mate, Rufus Salawu as Presidential Candidate of AD and Akuchie Clif as his vice president.
Also published on the commission website were Alhaji Ganiyu Galadima and Ojengbede Farida as the presidential and vice president of ACPN, as well as Dr Mani Ahmad and Obianuju Murphy-Uzohue as president and vice president for ADC.
Others are Ayeni Adebayo as president and Anthony ologbosere, female for APA, Muhammadu Buhari and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as president and vice president for APC, while CPC has Chief Sam Eke as its presidential candidate and Hassana Hassan as vice president.
The Hope Party has High Chief Ambrose Owuru and Alhaji Haruna Shaba as president and vice president, while KOWA party has
Comfort Sonaiya and Alhaji Seidu Bobboi as president and vice president.
NCP has Chief Martin Onovo as president and Ibrahim Mohammed as vice president, while PDP presidential candidate is Dr Goodluck Jonathan, and Namadi Sambo as his running mate.
The PPN has Allagoa Chinedu as presidential candidate with Arabamhen Mary (female) as vice president, while Godson Okoye is the presidential candidate of UDP and Haruna Adamu as vice president.
For the UPP, the presidential candidate is Dr Chekwas Okorie and Mr Bello Umar as his running mate. (NAN)
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/inec-publishes-names-14-presidential-candidates/#sthash.M22PtVOv.dpuf

HOW TO IDENTIFY JOB SCAM (II)

                                                                          

                                                              HR Talk 

                                                                 with

                                                       Moruf Kolawole Nasir

In continuation of our last week’s article on ways of identifying job scams, below is the concluding part of the ways. Meanwhile, our subsequent article will be on how to identify fake recruitment outfits.

THE RECRUITER’S EMAIL ADDRESS: I have read few writers who are of the view that using free email account such as yahoo, Gmail is a sign of scam. This may not always be true as many start ups companies and many small and unstructured companies who have little or no need for a website to do their business, go about their businesses without a website and thus leaving their staff at the mercies of free email accounts like yahoo, Gmail etc. However, when a supposedly recruitment company has no website or a well established/structured company requires you to send application to a yahoo mail or a Gmail account, then take cover. I see lots of this where job adverts are placed for companies as organized as MTN and applicants are required to send in their applications to one Mr. mrlagbaja@yahoo.com, or mrtamedo@gmail.com in any such situation, something ‘scammish’ is in the offing, so take cover.

CHARGES FOR APPLICATION: Irrespective of the nomenclature given to collecting money from you, extortion is extortion; either at the application stage, middle of the recruitment process or at the end of it. Care must be taken here as lots of recruitment outfits are daily springing up and use all manner of tricks to collect money from unsuspecting job seekers. REAL recruitment companies don’t make a dime from job seekers; they make their monies from their clients-employer. So whenever you are asked to purchase one scratch card or pay for one useless process either by any of our irresponsible government parastatals (for only irresponsible government will extort her unemployed youth- using sweet words to describe the extortion), or you are required to pay to register with any ‘recruitment’ outfit to get you job, take to your heels. I must quick to say here that some ‘consulting’ firms render other services to job seekers e.g. CV review etc; they demand for and are entitled to payment for such services. If that is your case, then no cause for alarm, but if the payment is connected to getting you a job, please run!

NO INFORMATION ABOUT THE RECRUITER OR RECRUITING COMPANY: For many reasons, employers sometimes prefer to remain anonymous in their job advert. This is what these fraudsters capitalize on to swindle job seekers; hence statements like “our client…”, “an Oil & Gas firm …” etc are justifiably thrown around by both genuine and fake recruiters. Since the company’s identity is hidden in this kind of advert, it is expected that the identities of the recruiting firms be known and traceable to their callings. If the recruiting firms’ have no traceable track record of their recruiting business, then you should observe some caution.
 

INVITATION WITHOUT APPLICATION: I need not do long explanation here. We all know what happens when you are been offered $1000 through you email without you playing any lottery. Same thing is applicable here. If you cannot remember applying for the job, don’t bother attending to the invite. If you are however in doubt, you may just subject the invite to some of the above test and see if it passes, only then should you go for such interview, with your eyes wide open though. Most times such ‘unremembered’ applications are always scams. What we (HR practitioners) do in cases of old applications from our data base, is to give the person a call first to find out if he/she is still available for the position after which detailed invite is sent to such person. We do not just send invite to someone after six month of applying to a job. (that is in genuine cases).

THE VACANCY COMES FROM AN UNKNOWN SOURCE: If you belong to some BB group, you will frequently get job advert; same thing is applicable to subscribing for jobs in some job boards. These platforms have identities so there is no much ado. But when openings/vacancies start coming from an unknown face to you through whichever platform, please tread with care.
 

THE VACANCY FAILS SOME OR MOST OF THE ABOVE TESTS: With all these above points, any reasonable graduate should be able to identify job scams whenever they rear their ugly head. Whenever you subject any job advert to all the above tests/points and the vacancy/job fails some or most of the them, trust me, it is a no-go area.

Always remember “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn”.

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NYSC shifts mobilization of Corps Members

The National Youth Service Corps on Monday said corps members would be mobilised in only two batches in 2015.
They are 2015 Batch ‘A’ and 2015 Batch ‘B’.
NYSC has however shifted the date of mobilisation for Batch A from Tuesday, May 5, to Tuesday, May 26, 2015.
The Director of Press and Public Relations in NYSC, Mrs. Bose Aderibigbe, said this in an interview with THE PUNCH while clarifying a press statement on Monday in which she said the decision was “due to some operational exigencies.”
Aderibigbe said, “Part of the reasons is because of the forthcoming general elections. You know our corps members are participating in the elections. February 21 is when elections will be rounding off and Batch A, that is supposed to pass out, will still be in service to continue with the elections.”
The NYSC spokeswoman denied that the action was due to fears that there could be a repeat of the 2011 post-election violence.
She said, “No, which post-election violence? It is not because of that; we have three batches already in service and they are all participating in the elections. It is not because of fear of post-election violence.”
A earlier sent by the NYSC read, “The management of the NYSC wishes to inform the general public, especially prospective corps members, that due to some operational exigencies, corps members will be mobilised in only two batches this year: 2015 Batch ‘A’ and 2015 Batch ‘B’.
“Furthermore, the 2015 Batch ‘A’ Orientation Course has been scheduled to take place from Tuesday, May 5 to Tuesday, May, 26 2015, and not in the month of March as obtained in the previous years.
“All prospective corps members are advised to check the NYSC website: www.nysc.gov.ng for details of the 2015 Batch ‘A’ mobilisation time-table and be guided accordingly, please.”

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